Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) have become popular over the past two decades. Especially since the mid 1990s there has been a notable increase of organizations using these kinds of management tools. The benefits of PMS are widely accepted in the industrial sector, but there have been...

The global environmental awareness has become the most important driver for sustainable development also in the forestry sector, which has reproduced interest in Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and Certified Forest Products (CFPs). However, the initial objectives set for the forest...

Within conservation literature increasing attention is on conservation opportunity valuing actual implementation. Previously focus has been on conservation priority among areas with the highest biological value or lowest cost. However, when nature management has to take place on private land...

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are vital for a country's economy considering export growth, creation of job opportunities, and general economic development (Mtigwe, 2005). Thus, acknowledging the societal importance of SMEs in general and internationalization of SMEs in particular, it...

Recent history has seen an increase in the utilization of forest sector models to identify potential impacts of various policies or timber market shocks. These models are particularly useful in that they employ economic theory to capture the interaction of supply and demand in a framework where...

The framework of Ecosystem Goods and Services, introduced by Millenium Ecosystem Assessment has entered as a key linkage between ecosystems and human well-being. This paper introduces and briefly analyses developments and state of affairs in Finland’s forest and environmental policies and the...

Berck, P. The Fuel for Land Use Change ; page 112 Brazee, R. J. and Meilby, H. Volvo Theorem Revisited ; page 112 Favada, I. An Economic Analysis of Forest Rotation without Interest Rate – Setting the Scene ; page 113 Hankala, A., Wikström, P., Öhman, K. and Eriksson, L. O. An integrated...

The first Swedish forest owners’ associations were established in the 1910s and 1920s. The purpose was to promote and improve management of the small scale forests. Since then the society, the forest sector and the conditions for the small scale forest owners have changed dramatically. Thus,...